Jason Bach
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Nevermind! figured it out. I had applied a 3rd party FX filter on some of the clips but my licensing was all screwed up and I had to re-input the serial.
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It’s not an encoding issue, as I have traced it back to the clip(s) that I put in my timeline in FCP. When I view the clip(s) in my timeline by double clicking them and playing them in the Viewer, I see those dots. I can go to my media library, find the original transcoded prores clip that I used before to drop in, double click that, find the in and out points again, and re-add to the timeline without having dots. My issue is I don’t want to painstakingly go through each clip, find the in and out points and re-add to the timeline.
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I should have stated that the footage was already transcoded using MPEG streamclip to Prores 422 LT – not my first edit by a long shot. i’ve just never have seen this issue before…
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i had this problem too. Turns out the footage that I imported automatically set my sequence settings to render in YCbCR, not RGB. I went to Sequence settings -> Video Processing Tab, and selected “Always Render in RGB”. I was then able to render my transitions and effects.
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LOL, you see? it’s always a little thing overlooked. sigh. Thanks!
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Thanks for the info, I’ll remember that when I setup my AE comp settings. And it was weird, no alarms went off in my head b/c FCP wasn’t making me render any of the clips I was dropping into that timeline, or I would have noticed right away that something was wrong. That’s why I was so surprised when I went and checked the sequence settings and saw that it didnt match my clip settings. argh.
This just teaches me to be ultra paranoid now about my sequence settings and to double check everything before I proceed.
Another question – best way to bring into AE from FCP? export as reference .mov using current settings (assuming I’m editing in ProRes) with no audio? or export XML? and then what about back into FCP? You said use the Render queue (Animation codec?). Then do I just reimport that .mov into FCP and sync with the old video footage?
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I think I have solved my problem (just after I posted, lol). So I double checked my clip settings in the browser, and yes they were 1920×1080 (and yes, I had a brain fart and realized that full HD is in fact 1920×1080 NOT 1440×1080 – sigh). Frame rate was 23.98. However, yes, my sequence had automagically been created to 1440×1080 & 25p. How you ask? B/c my Easy Setup was set to that and when I dragged and dropped the first clip into that timeline, I must have said no. Oh, how you learn the hard way. So I went back and setup some new Easy Setups and set the default to 1920×1080 24p ProRes.
Now, is there any easy way to keep the edits of the clips I made in the first sequence but put them in a new sequence that has the proper settings?